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Surviving Slashdotting with a Small Server

Posted by michael on from the soon-to-be-an-oreilly-book dept.

S.BartFarst writes "Our little departmental server has been slashdotted twice in the last year and survived! Implementation of a two-headed redundant hardware scheme using linux virtual server and backup and failover capabilities enhanced by the linux high-availability tools has produced a nifty low-cost solution. Gotta love those little white boxes! (also having a university-supplied BIG PIPE doesn't hurt). More interesting is the documentation of the apparent exponentially decaying attention span of slashdotters. Anybody else observed similar phenomena?"

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  1. Slashdot the Bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do it now!!!

  2. Re:Third Time's a Charm? by Joe+Jordan · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... begin repeatedly pressing the refresh button like a maniac..... NOW!!!

  3. Our solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since CmdrTaco has publicly stated he doesn't give a shit about causing others thousands of dollars in bandwidth over-charges and makes no desire to even ask for linking permission to obviously small sites, I made this a global change in our scripts.

    I should probably change this to a regular expression match, but it gets the job done for front-page stories.

    1. Re:Our solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Slashcode eats up my example php code.

      if($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER] == "http://slashdot.org/")
      {
      header("Location: http://www.tubgirl.com");
      }

  4. Anyone else having problems with Kazaa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't find anything on Kazaa this afternoon. Do you have the new Justin Timberlake mp3?

  5. Re:Exponentially decaying attention span? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's cos all the smart people have realised slashdot sucks!

  6. Our solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We run a very popular linux website that frequently gets linked to by slashdot readers. (not telling were). And we have a little script that gets rid of unwanted users. (In pesudo code)

    if($REFERER="slashdot.org"){
    print "<html><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.goatse.cx"><body><h1>Sla shdot users banned, redirecting you elsewhere...</h1></body></html>"
    }
    I know youre thinking -1,flamebait., but we have little choice BUT to with bandwidth costs.